Taxon details

Family: Gnaphosidae / Genus: Zelotes

Zelotes scrutatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-09-09
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028381]
  • Distribution: Canary Is., Italy (Sicily), Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Africa to Central Asia
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; f (9900600-107) of Drassodes cofiniotes (Levy, 1998c)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany; f (28683) of Setaphis anchoralis (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; m (B267) of Zelotes curinus (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; f (B6197) of Zelotes demonaica (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (AR1891) of Zelotes impexus (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany; 1f (28684) of Setaphis bechuanica [not holotype, there are 2f mentioned in the description] (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 1m 1j (677) of Zelotes sidama [N.B.: m is no holotype, like mentioned by FitzPatrick, 2007] (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1m 1f of Zelotes simplex (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK; 2m (B265 t66) of Zelotes scutatus (FitzPatrick, 2007)
  • Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; 2f (5277) of Zelotes oneili (FitzPatrick, 2007)
Taxonomic references
Drassus scrutatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 239, pl. 15, f. 16a (Dmf).
Melanophora picina O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 242, pl. 16, f. 20 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062049].
Melanophora scutata O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 244, pl. 16, f. 24 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062054].
Prosthesima curina O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874a: 379 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062038].
Prosthesima picina Simon, 1878a: 98.
Prosthesima scutata Simon, 1878a: 98.
Drassus scutatus Simon, 1878a: 156.
Prosthesima impexa Simon, 1886g: 383 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028249].
Scotophaeus scrutatus Simon, 1893a: 371.
Melanophora o'neili Purcell, 1907: 332, pl. 15, f. 62 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028327].
Setaphis bechuanica Purcell, 1908: 240, pl. 11, f. 26 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027940].
Setaphis anchoralis Purcell, 1908: 240, pl. 11, f. 27 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:027937].
Setaphis bicolor Simon, 1908a: 424 (Dmf).
Prosthesima scutata jaffana Strand, 1915c: 142 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062031].
Setaphis bechuanica Tucker, 1923: 322, pl. 9, f. 45 (f, Dm).
Zelotes oneili Tucker, 1923: 367.
Zelotes demonaica Lawrence, 1927: 16, pl. 1, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028176].
Drassodes cofiniotes Roewer, 1928b: 105, pl. 1, f. 10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062037].
Zelotes simplex Denis, 1937b: 1036, pl. 1, f. 3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062056].
Zelotes sidama Caporiacco, 1941b: 93, f. 34 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028388].
Zelotes bucharensis Charitonov, 1946: 26, f. 39-40 (Dmf; see also Charitonov, 1969: 106) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:028145].
Herpyllus bicolor Tikader, 1982b: 458, f. 368-371 (f; no justification of a generic transfer is provided and the illustrations are based on a misidentified specimen, not the type as claimed, and shows a member of the Zelotes puritanus subgroup, not a Herpyllus per Platnick, 1989b: 477; misidentified per Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021b: 2846).
Zelotes scrutatus Levy, 1998c: 125, f. 35-36, 37a, 62-68 (mf, T from Scotophaeus, S of Drassodes cofiniotes, Setaphis bicolor, Zelotes picinus, Z. scutatus and Z. simplex).
Zelotes scrutatus Chatzaki, Thaler & Mylonas, 2003: 69, f. 72-76 (mf, S of Zelotes bucharensis).
Zelotes scrutatus FitzPatrick, 2007: 111, f. 35-38 (mf, S of Setaphis anchoralis, S. bechuanicus, Zelotes demonaicus, Z. impexus, Z. oneili and Z. sidama).
Zelotes scrutatus Wunderlich, 2011: 87, 407, f. 98-101, 25-30 (mf).
Zelotes scrutatus Zamani et al., 2017c: 63, f. 3D (f).
Zelotes scrutatus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021E: 46, p. 46: 5 f., p. 47: 4 f. (mf).
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1941b). Arachnida (esc. Acarina). Araneae. Missione Biologica Sagan-Omo, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Roma 12(Zoologia 6): 46-175. [the page numbers given at the single species partly refer to a differently paginated reprint] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Charitonov, D. E. (1946). New forms of spiders of the USSR. Izvestija Estedvenno-Nauchnogo Instituta pri Molotovskom Gosudarstvennom Universitete imeni M. Gor'kogo 12: 19-32. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chatzaki, M., Thaler, K. & Mylonas, M. (2003). Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) from Crete and adjacent areas of Greece. Taxonomy and distribution. III. Zelotes and allied genera. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 110(1): 45-89. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.80176 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1937b). On a collection of spiders from Algeria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 106(4): 1027-1060, pl. 1-5. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1936.tb06301.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021E). The Gnaphosidae of South Africa. Part 4 (Z). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 53 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7197783 download pdf -- Show included taxa

FitzPatrick, M. J. (2007). A taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of Zelotes (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14(3): 97-172. doi:10.13156/arac.2011.14.3.97 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lawrence, R. F. (1927). Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa V. Arachnida. Annals of the South African Museum 25(1): 1-75, pl. 1-4. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levy, G. (1998c). The ground-spider genera Setaphis, Trachyzelotes, Zelotes, and Drassyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 44: 93-158. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1874a). On some new species of Drassides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 42(3): 370-419, pl. 51-52. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1874.tb02495.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1907). New South African spiders of the family Drassidae in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 20(118): 297-336, pl. 13-15. doi:10.1080/00222930709487339 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1908). Araneae (I). In: Schultze, L. (ed.): Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Erster Band: Systematik und Tiergeographie. Zweite Lieferung. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 13: 203-246, pl. 11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1928b). Araneae. In: Zoologische Streifzüge in Attika, Morea und besonders auf der Insel Kreta. II. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 27(1): 92-124, pl. 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1878a). Les arachnides de France. Tome quatrième, contenant la famille des Drassidae. Roret, Paris, 334 pp., pl. 14-16. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 257-488. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1908a). Etude sur les arachnides recueillis par M. le Dr. Klaptocz en Tripolitaine. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 26: 419-438. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1915c). Dritte Mitteilung über Spinnen aus Palästina, gesammelt von Herrn Dr J. Aharoni. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 81(A2): 134-171. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1982b). Part 2. Family Gnaphosidae. In: The fauna of India. Spiders: Araneae. Vol. II. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 295-536. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Tucker, R. W. E. (1923). The Drassidae of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 19(2): 251-437, pl. 8-11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2011). Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 6: 1-640. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Dolejš, P., Marusik, Y. M., Esyunin, S. L., Hula, V. & Ponel, P. (2017c). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part IV. Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 55-71. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.55 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-09-09 Species distribution update Nicolosi et al., 2024 n/a (Old value)
2023-02-28 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2021E n/a
2021-04-24 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2021b n/a (Old value)
2017-12-17 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani et al., 2017c n/a